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• New and Notable 140

  I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both of which have higher priority, of course. I should at least empty out my flagged items in Feed Demon as the size of the list drives me crazy-). WPF/WPF/Avalon My good buddy Walt wants to know " What are the Top Five Things you want to know about WPF/e ?" He is speaking at several conferences this year on the subject, so if you want to influence his choices, head on over! Simon talks about the Regatta Manager as his #7 Great WPF application and as the 2nd production WPF ever . It definitely seems that WPF is picking up some real momentum in real applications vs demos Speaking of that, Tim Sneath continues his series with Great WPF Applications #7: Skandia Cowes Week CourseSetter Software Architecture/SOA Mario Szpusztra posts his whitepaper on his point-of-view on Microsoft's strategies around Service Orientation, BPM and ESB. Its a good read I agree with Harry on his reaction to Anne Manes of the Burton Group says the time is right for UDDI , calling it the "foundation for governance". I agree that UDDI may be a piece of the puzzle but I have seen nearly zero uptake on UDDI. As Harry says it's all about "desire" rather than discoverability Arnon continues his "What is SOA Anyway?" series with Part 4: SOA Defined and Part 5: Summary SQL Server/Data Congrats to Data Dude team on shipping ! You can get it here , more details from Gert here WCF/Indigo A nice series of posts emerged on Indigo beginning with a post that Harry sent me and asked me to review. I think Harry is right on in his How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love WCF with his realizations about the relationship between duplex contracts and durable services. As we all know, it was a V1, and stay tuned! Also in this thread Read More... Posted Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:39 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Windows Vista, Software Architecture, SOA, New and Notable, Data, ADO.NET, Agile, Personal and Family (Non-Technical), Microsoft, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Visual Studio, TDD, VS Team System, Vista, Orcas, Financial, Banking, Data Dude, SQL Server

• New and Notable 102

  Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most excellent series on Obfuscation , this time on String Encryption . However, the word on the street is that a certain retired Godfather may be coming back and regaining his territories in points further south -) Agile I am really excited about Jim Shore's new book on Extreme Programming . I am excited about two things in TAAD; one, mainstream practical and two, pure XP and not diluted Agile He has posted the first section on Pair Programming online for review Espresso Fueled Development comments on how he Talks About Agile Visual Studio/Team System I am thrilled to see Sara Ford post the Power Toys for Visual Studio FY07 Goals and the use of SCRUM for fast releases. I really loved the VS2003 toys but they are so like three years ago-) and having used solely Whidbey the past 1.5 - 2 years, I would love to see VS2005 toys Rob Caron reports that, " Michael Ruminer launched a project on CodePlex to develop a version control tree browser for Team Foundation Version Control ( TFS Source Code Version Tree Browser ). See more on his blog. Korby (BTW, thanks for your phone call but I didn't make it to TechEd!), speaks of Martin Woodward of Teamprise , who explains how to set up CI for CodePlex projects using CruiseControl.NET. Technorati Tags: CLR , .NET , Team System , VSTS , Visual Studio , New and Notable , Ruby , WCF , Windows Communication Foundation , SOA , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 7:31 AM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, CLR, WCF/Indigo, SOA, Ruby, New and Notable, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile and Extreme Programming, VS Team System, TFS and MSF-Agile, Microsoft, Visual Studio, Team System, VSTS